Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even if this retailer had used AI to forecast my purchase, AI that creates a perfect plan but fails to execute it only results in a highly-efficient silo, as Northeastern University professor Nada Sanders says. It’s not enough to make a model table for a website or a showroom. Planning was effective in this case, execution failed.

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IQMS

MARCH 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed manufacturers to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. In the process, it has highlighted an aspect of manufacturing ERP that is not as visible in more normal times— business continuity.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This week, global automaker Toyota indicated that the company would nearly double its investment in a planned battery production facility being constructed in the state of North Carolina. Cost is an obvious factor as well, even as government subsidies for purchase exist.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 24, 2015

Center for Environmental Farming Systems (1) – Dairy Farming Project – Helping to create a transition plan to Austin Family Dairy Farm, a 75-Jersey cow conventional dairy farm located in Yancey County, North Carolina. You guessed it – ANALYTICS! What do all of these projects have in common?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list. This complexity is occurring in many forms.

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USC Consulting Group

AUGUST 11, 2020

The novel coronavirus has produced a lot of uncertainty, and for manufacturers in the pulp and paper industry, that includes uncertainty related to demand. In March, for instance, online sales rose 25% and online grocery shopping soared 100% in terms of daily receipts, USA Today reported from a study done by Adobe Analytics.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This exclusive data comes from EventWatch AI , Resilinc’s 24/7 AI-powered, global event monitoring platform, which collects information and monitors news on 400 different types of disruptions across 104 million global sources. The fire started when a small piece of Styrofoam the company manufacturers caught fire in an oven.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2018

Here is a sample of the type of projects our MBA and Engineering students are working on this semester, proving again that NC State is all about “THINK AND DO” (in our case, executing on practical applications in the real world using robust supply chain analytical approaches). MUFG Union Bank Strategic Performance Metrics.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Users can choose a fixed implementation plan or a more consultative approach, and scale up as needed with everything from reporting and analytics, shop floor data capture, HR, payroll and hosting available. Purchasing and supplier management, International Commerce Codes functionality, and advanced shipping. Orchestrate.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some states are limiting corporate access to renewable energy, making it difficult for manufacturers to meet energy goals. Yet many of these manufacturers now face a challenge in accessing the clean energy they want and need, due to state policies that limit corporate renewable energy procurement.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Analytics is key.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina. I love data and analytics that create insights into processes and approaches.”

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 17, 2015

I am delighted to share with readers of my blog, the announcement of a new report completed by Jay Golden from Duke University and myself, that was released today at 11 AM and announced by Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the release of the report that shows the U.S.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Effectively, there is no database that permits reliable reporting on the volume of biobased products sold in the US or exported for global consumers. Unfortunately, The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard-bearer for classifying businesses and sectors.

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Murano Corporation

JANUARY 19, 2016

which combines Cloud Computing, Big Data and Analytics, Horizontal and Vertical System Integration, the Internet of Things, and Cybersecurity to interconnect manufacturers and their customers and suppliers in an extended supply chain. It incorporates the Business to Manufacturing Markup Language (B2MML) XML standard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Cybersecurity has emerged as a key area of concern in Japan, where government critics say responses to hacking threats have been hampered by a fractured approach: an attack on a hitherto obscure supplier was enough to bring one of the world’s mightiest manufacturers to a domestic standstill. The new pool, to be known as SACP 3.0,

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